Qmfr:
I'm just on page 1, post one of this other thread. I wanted to bring this forward, that I'd like to see all these locations mapped out. Perhaps there is a map over there and I just haven't gotten to it yet, but I see some disposal/recovery locations here right away so wanted to bring them forward for a place to start.
Eta: will read through the below and Deb's other thread before posting further in order to be current with all the information.
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*FL - GERARD SCHAEFER -- How Many Victims?
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?34741-FL-GERARD-SCHAEFER-How-Many-Victims / post 1:
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Teeth, jewelry identification papers from several missing young women were found in a closet in his mother's house in Ft. Lauderdale
These are the victims that I can find linked to Schaefer:
-17-year-old*Susan Place*and 16-year-old*Georgia Jessup*had vanished from Fort*
Lauderdale.On April 1, 1973, hikers*found human bones*near Blind Creek, on Hutchinson Island. The*
two teenage*victims were identified*by dental records on April 5. Susan had been shot in the jaw. The*
crime scene indicated the girls were (rsbm, snipped by me, m25, graphic.”
Based on the M.O. and Lucille*
Place’s testimony, Schaefer was the only suspect in the case.Police searched Schaefer’s mother’s*
home on April 7. The objects seized from his room included: a purse owned by Susan Place (Schaefer was convicted of these 2 murders)
Leigh Hainline Bonadies. Bonadies was last seen on September 8, 1969 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gerard John Schaefer was*
named as the prime suspect in Bonadies' disappearance when authorities found her gold locket in*
Schaefer's possession at the time of his arrest in the 1970's. Schaefer was never charged in*
connection with Bonadies' case.*Bonadies' remains were found*in the subdivision of Boca Del Mar*
which was under construction at the time in Boca Raton, FL in January 1978. She was*positively*
identified in 2004.
The next to vanish from Broward County was*Carmen Marie Hallock, a 22-year-old cocktail waitress.
When Schaefer’s stash of souvenirs was seized in 1973, police recovered two of Hallock’s gold-filled*
teeth and a shamrock pin identified by her family.*Her body has never been found.
Belinda Hutchens*was another 22-year-old cocktail waitress On January 5, 1972. In 1973, the search of Doris Schaefer’s home revealed an address book*
containing the name, address and phone number of Belinda’s husband.*No other trace of her was found,*
no charges were ever filed.
At some point, Schaefer tired of killing victims singly. “Doing doubles,” he later wrote, “is far more*
difficult than doing singles, but on the other hand it also puts one in a position to have twice as much*
fun. There can be some lively discussions about which of the victims will get to be killed first.
We cannot know when Schaefer started “doing doubles.” Seven years after the fact, his name was*
linked to the disappearance of 21-year-old*Nancy Leichner*and 20-year-old*Pamela Nater, Pinellas*
County residents who vanished on a 1966 picnic in the Ocala National Forest.*The case remains*
unsolved and both women are still missing.*
A better case exists for Schaefer’s involvement in the murders of*9-year-old*Peggy Rahn*and*
8-year-old*Wendy Stevenson, in Pompano Beach. Both vanished from the beach on December 29,*
1970.*The girls remain missing*
and Schaefer was never charged, though prosecutors publicly accused him of the crime in 1973.*
Schaefer denied the slayings publicly, but later confessed in a letter dated April 19, 1989.
19-year-old Iowa residents*Collette Goodenough*and*
Barbara Ann Wilcox*left Biloxi, Mississippi, hitchhiking to Florida. No trace of either girl was seen*
until April, when searchers found evidence of their fate in Schaefer’s stash. Among the items retrieved*
were Barbara’s driver’s license, along with Collette’s passport, diary and a book of poems. Skeletal*
remains of both victims were found*at Port Saint Lucie in January 1977, but no cause of death could*
be found and no charges were ever filed.
October 23,*14-year-olds Mary Alice*
Briscolina and Elsie Lina Farmer*were added to the missing list Farmer’s*skeletal remains were foundon January 17, 1973 (eight days after Schaefer went to jail), at*
a construction site near Plantation High School. Briscolina was found on February 15, 200 yards*
away. (Both girls were identified by dental records.) Following the April search of Doris Schaefer’s*
home, Farmer’s relatives identified a piece of jewelry taken from the murdered girl.Schaefer was never charged with those murders, but he later admitted the crimes, in a letter referring*
to one of his published stories, titled “Murder Demons.”*"
